Dawn of Time is a webcomic by Michael Stearns. 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, there was a young cavewoman named Dawn. Armed only with her determination and only a little common sense, Dawn sets out to make her way in the savage wild. Along the way, she meets and befriends a big, friendly triceratops named Blue, as well as a time traveler named Mantell. Things kind of snowball from there.In July 2011 Stearns announced that he was putting the comic on indefinite hiatus due to other commitments.
Baleful Polymorph: A merman who saves Dawn from drowning appears to be attempting to turn her into a mermaid to join his little undersea harem, but she rejects it. A giant nautiloid attacks their ship immediately after.
Disney Death: Blue's Protoceratops "sibling". It looks as though he has died and has become part of the "fighting dinosaurs" fossil, but it turns out he was just dreaming and Blue had already saved him.
The dromaeosaurids are initially (intentionally) shown unfeathered. A feathered dinosaur shows up later in the comic, and the Velociraptor in Blue's backstory is also feathered.
Averted by the dinosauroids, who worship Dawn and aid the heroes.
Mind Screw: The entire time traveling storyline, including Owen's plan to retcon his aging and Dawn getting sent into the future and then returning to save herself.
Nobody Here But Us Statues: Blue, hiding from pursuit in a Victorian dinosaur park. Ironically, Blue is the only "statue" that looks remotely accurate according to current knowledge of dinosaurs.
Raptor Attack: The featherless dromaeosaurids in earlier pages play this straight, but the dromaeosaurids that appear later are more true to real life.
Stock Dinosaurs: Played straight and averted. Fan-favorites like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops make appearances, but so do less well known species like Pachyrhinosaurus and Sauropelta.
Storming The Castle: The dinosauroids enlist the help of pterosaurs and use Blue as a wrecking ball to do this in order to save Dawn. After the dinosauroid chief is killed, Dawn leads the surviving dinosauroids on a second charge.
Symbol Swearing: Not that whatever Dawn's saying is ever intelligible, but when she swears, we know it.
Take That: To Dr. Horner's hypothesis that Tyrannosaurus rex was an obligate scavenger. Dr. Horner and Dr. Bakker go into the past to investigate, and, predictably, Dr. Horner gets eaten when he tries to show that T. rex would not be interested in live prey.
Temple of Doom: Complete with a half-elephant/half-man god thing guarding the inside.
Dawn herself at the start of the comic. (Which is a little odd, as her adoptive parents later mention that it wasn't uncommon for her to leave home for a few days. How did she feed herself during those times? Or did she just go hungry?)
Dr. Horner. Yes, no doubt the T. rex was just a cowardly scavenger....
You Can't Fight Fate: Averted. Dawn successfully changes the past and saves herself. Not only that, but the circumstances in the past she returns to ends up slightly different from the one she left.
is a webcomic by Michael Stearns. 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, there was a young cavewoman named Dawn. Armed only with her determination and only a little common sense, Dawn sets out to make her way in the savage wild. Along the way, she meets and befriends a big, friendly triceratops named Blue, as well as a time traveler named Mantell
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